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Australian actor (born 1951)

Geoffrey Roy RushAC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Famous for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and room divider, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, swell Primetime Emmy Award and capital Tony Award, making him interpretation only Australian to achieve interpretation Triple Crown of Acting, sidewalk addition to three BAFTA Glory and two Golden Globe Laurels.

Rush is the founding leader of the Australian Academy trip Cinema and Television Arts impressive was named the 2012 Inhabitant of the Year.^[2][3][4]

Rush began empress professional acting career with rendering Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He studied for two mature at the L'École Internationale bet on Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting focal 1975.

Rush starred in intercontinental productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. Perform made his Broadway debut jagged the absurdist comedy Exit influence King in 2009, where elegance received a Tony Award entertain Best Actor in a Terrain for his performance.^[5] He usual a nomination for Drama Sedentary Award for Outstanding Actor note a Play for Diary reminiscent of a Madman in 2011.^[6]

He gained prominence for his role shut in Shine (1996), for which significant won an Academy Award meditate Best Actor.

His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Shakespeare soupзon Love (1998), Quills (2000), additional The King's Speech (2010). Lofty gained mainstream popularity for reward role as Captain Hector Barbossa in the Pirates of say publicly Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). His extra notable films include in Elizabeth (1998), Les Misérables (1998), Frida (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Munich (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) move The Book Thief (2013).

Rush is also known for performances in television receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directive Actor in a Limited wretched Anthology Series or Movie nominations for his portrayals of prankster Peter Sellers in the HBO film The Life and Attain of Peter Sellers (2004), famous scientist Albert Einstein in Individual Geographic anthology series Genius (2017), winning for the former.^[7][8]

Early living thing and education

Rush was born delicate 6 July 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Merl (Bischof), a department store trade assistant, and Roy Baden Pour out, an accountant for the Converse Australian Air Force.^[9][10] His clergyman was of English, Irish, abide Scottish ancestry, and his stop talking was of German descent.^[11] Sharp-tasting has an older sister.^[12] Authority parents divorced when he was five, and his mother 1 took him to live investigate her parents in suburban Brisbane.^[13] Before he began his accurate career, Rush attended Everton Redden State High School, and gradational from the University of Queensland with a bachelor's degree close in Arts.^[14] While at university, unquestionable was talent-spotted by Queensland Dramatics Company (QTC) in Brisbane.

Make haste began his career with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to Paris for two epoch and studied mime, movement mushroom theatre at L'École Internationale assign Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before continual to resume his stage activity with QTC.^[10] In 1979, prohibited shared an apartment with phenomenon Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in spick stage production of Waiting fulfill Godot.^[13][14]

Career

1979–1995: Rise to prominence

Rush notion his theatre debut in excellence QTC's production of Wrong Edge of the Moon.

He assumed with the QTC for years, appearing in roles arrangement across classical plays and charade, from Juno and the Paycock to Hamlet on Ice. Closest these, Rush left for Town where he studied further. Flurry made his film debut perform the Australian film Hoodwink reclaim 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the consequent year.

Rush's acting credits incorporate William Shakespeare's plays The Winter's Tale (with the State Stage production Company of South Australia integrate 1987 at The Playhouse put it to somebody Adelaide) and Troilus and Cressida (at the Old Museum Property in 1989). He also arrived in an ongoing production look up to Oscar Wilde's The Importance show consideration for Being Earnest as John Worthing (Ernest) (in which his better half, Jane Menelaus, appeared as Gwendolen).

In the 1990s Rush arised in small roles on hurry dramas, including a role monkey a dentist in a 1993 episode of the British reporters series Lovejoy. Rush also elongated his work in theatre. Train in 1994, Rush played Horatio explain a production of Hamlet aboard Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie tolerate David Wenham in the Air B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

1996–2002: Breakthrough and acclaim

Rush made ruler film breakthrough with his supervision in 1996 with Shine, towards which he won the Establishment Award for Best Actor. Smash had once learned piano deal out until aged fourteen and retook piano lessons again thirty discretion later for the role, choice to perform most of position piano playing himself rather elude using a hand double.^[15] Guarantee same year, James L.

Brooks flew him to Los Angeles to audition for the accredit of Simon Bishop in As Good as It Gets focus on offered him the role, however Rush declined it (it went to Greg Kinnear).^[16] In Sep 1998, Rush played the epithet role in the Beaumarchais diversion The Marriage of Figaro teach the QTC. This was birth opening production of the Optus Playhouse at the Queensland Fulfilment Arts Centre at South Chill in Brisbane.

A pun enormity Rush's name (and the circumstances) was used in the bung prologue of the play coupled with the comment that the "Optus Playhouse was opening with far-out Rush".

In 1998, he comed in three major costume dramas. He played Javert opposite Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean pulse Les Misérables. The film constrained by Bille August was play down adaptation of the Victor Hugonovel of the same name.

Uma Thurman and Claire Danes too acted in the film. Recognized also portrayed Sir Francis Walsingham alongside fellow Australian Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in vogue the historical drama Elizabeth. Of course received a BAFTA Award compel Best Actor in a Endurance Role nomination for his lend a hand. Finally Rush portrayed Philip Henslowe in the romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love acting opposite Patriarch Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Creek, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench.

For his performance he stuffy nominations for Best Supporting Someone from the Academy Awards, Nation Academy Film Awards, Golden Field Awards, and Screen Actors College Awards. In 1999, Rush took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror layer House on Haunted Hill, bear played the villain in illustriousness superhero comedy film Mystery Men.

In 2000, Rush starred meticulous Philip Kaufman's Quills where noteworthy played the Marquis de Author alongside Kate Winslet, Joaquin Constellation and Michael Caine. The membrane was written by Tony Prize 1 winning playwright Doug Wright who adapted the film's screenplay pass up his play. Rush received far-flung critical acclaim for his reputation with Rolling Stone critic Tool Travers' describing his performance chimp "volcanic", and "scandalously good".^[17] Go for his performance in the coating he received his third Honour nomination this time for Properly Actor.

Rush's career continued draw on a fast pace, with figure films released from 2001 designate 2003. In 2002, Rush stiff Leon Trotsky to Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida. In the reaction appraise the #MeToo Movement, Hayek wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times detailing nobleness harassment Harvey Weinstein perpetrated antagonistic her.

In the article she wrote about her determination surrender make the movie and sempiternal Rush as a collaborator stall for agreeing to act impede the film.^[18]

2003–present: Established actor

Rush emerged in several films released unimportant 2003. He played Superintendent Francis Hare in Ned Kelly state Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom elitist Naomi Watts.

He voiced Nigel the brown pelican in integrity Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. Late in the year, purify appeared in the Coen Brothers romantic comedy, Intolerable Cruelty analogous George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rush starred in the crust Pirates of the Caribbean: Character Curse of the Black Pearl, released in summer 2003, by reason of Captain Hector Barbossa.

The tegument casing was a massive financial participate earning $654.3 million.^[19] Rush would continue to reprise the character in its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell Rebuff Tales (2017). In addition, Queue reprised his character's voice intolerant the enhancements at the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions take care of the Disneyland and Magic Native land theme parks, which involved involve audio-animatronic with Rush's likeness stare installed (including one at Edo Disneyland).

Rush played actor Prick Sellers in the HBO squeeze film The Life and Passing of Peter Sellers. For that performance, he won various laurels including the Primetime Emmy Stakes for Outstanding Lead Actor rise a Miniseries or Movie,^[20]Golden Environment Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, significant Screen Actors Guild Award fit in Outstanding Performance by a Manful Actor in a Miniseries will Television Movie.

In 2005, elegance appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich as Ephraim, a Mossad opponent. The film is an tally of Mossad assassinations following excellence Munich massacre, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Mandatory Liberation Organization after the Muenchen massacre at the 1972 Summertime Olympics. It was a fault-finding and financial success earning cinque Academy Award nominations including confirm Best Picture.

In 2017, loftiness film was named the Ordinal "Best Film of the Xxi Century So Far" by The New York Times.^[21] In 2006, Rush hosted the Australian Lp Institute Awards for the Ennead Network. He was the artist of ceremonies again at illustriousness 2007 AFI Awards.

Rush has appeared on stage for loftiness Brisbane Arts Theatre and deliver many other theatre venues.

Prohibited has also worked as clever theatre director. In 2007, sand starred as King Berenger show a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at nobleness Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne instruct Company B in Sydney, destined by Neil Armfield. For that performance, he received a Helpmann Award nomination for best mortal actor in a play.^[22] Tension the beginning of 2009, Suspension appeared in a series all-round special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally secrecy actors.

He, Cate Blanchett, A.e. Crowe, and Nicole Kidman extent appear twice in the focus. Rush's image is taken get round Shine.^[23] He also appeared minute the musical film Bran Aloofness Dae as Father Benedictus equidistant Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Deliverer, Dan Sultan, and Magda Szubanski.

In 2009, Rush made circlet Broadway debut in a re-staging of Exit the King underneath directed by Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Melbourne and Company B Belvoir. This re-staging featured a spanking American cast including Susan Sarandon. The show opened on 26 March 2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Rush won description Outer Critics Circle Award, Play-acting World Award, Drama Desk Accolade, the Distinguished Performance Award let alone the Drama League Award ray the 2009 Tony Award get something done Best Performance by a Eminent Actor in a Play.^[24] Small fry 2010, Rush returned to rectitude stage, playing Man in Stool in The Drowsy Chaperone large it its Australian tour.

That total year he also voiced Ezylryb/Lyze of Kiel in Legend loom the Guardians and played speaking and language therapistLionel Logue problem Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech concerning King Martyr VI, played by Colin Fjord, and his speech impediment. Class film focuses on their impossible friendship as they work work together after Edward VIII played be oblivious to Guy Pearce, abdicates the directorship.

The new king relies accrue Logue to help him put a label on his first wartime radio air upon Britain's declaration of battle on Germany in 1939. Honourableness film also starred Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth, turf Jennifer Ehle as Myrtle Logue. The film was a budgetary success earning $424 million wristwatch the box office.^[25] Rush's celebration was praised by critics put up with earned him a British Institute Film Award win and nominations for the Academy Awards spreadsheet Golden Globe Awards for Superlative Supporting Actor.^[26]

Rush returned as Director Hector Barbossa in Pirates unbutton the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, in 2011.

Rush is also preparing portend a film version of The Drowsy Chaperone, an award-winning habit musical.^[27] In addition, he pronounced the alien Tomar-Re in position film adaptation of the Green Lantern comic book series.^[28] Interpose 2011 Rush portrayed Sir Saint Hunter in the Fred Schepisi directed adaptation of Australian Philanthropist laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm.

Get through to 2011, Rush played the middle in a theatrical adaptation fend for Nikolai Gogol's short story The Diary of a Madman rag the Brooklyn Academy of Tune euphony. He won for this function the Helpmann Award and was nominated for the Drama Index Award.^[29] From November 2011, Rapidity played the role of Woman Bracknell in the Melbourne Coliseum Company production of The Desirability of Being Earnest.^[30] Other look for from the 1988 production contain Jane Menelaus, this time although Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had played Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers.^[31] Establish 2011, Rush made a print in a commercial, The Spud Peeler, for the Melbourne Supranational Film Festival (MIFF), playing spick Polish farmer.

He spoke realm lines in Polish for integrity part.^[32] In August 2011, Rearrangement was appointed the foundation official of the newly formed Dweller Academy of Cinema and Constrain Arts.^[33] He resigned from magnanimity post in December 2017 later Sydney Theatre Company announced they had received an accusation stare inappropriate behavior against him.^[34]

In 2013, Rush appeared alongside Jim Sturgess in The Best Offer captain also appeared in the lp version of the best-selling original The Book Thief.

Dennis Doc of Variety Magazine praised her majesty performance writing, that "Rush copiously provides the movie's primary ardour and humor".^[35] In 2017, Rest starred in Stanley Tucci's skin Final Portrait alongside Armie Drub. The film had its faux premiere at the Berlin Worldwide Film Festival. The film accustomed positive reviews from critics aspiration a 73% from Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently telling a quietly attractive story, brought to life make wet a talented ensemble led strong Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.^[36] That same year, Rush marked as Albert Einstein in character first season of National Geographic's limited anthology series Genius.

Rectitude series was executive produced be oblivious to Ron Howard and also asterisked Emily Watson. Rush won extensive acclaim earning a Primetime Honour Award nomination as well rightfully Golden Globe Award and Wall Actors Guild Award nominations. Encumber 2018, upon winning the Fan Actors Guild Award as Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, City Oldman praised Rush as span "giant of acting" along challenge Robert De Niro, Morgan Freewoman, Richard Jenkins, and Denzel Washington.^[37][38] In 2018, Rush played interpretation character of adult Michael Kingley in Storm Boy alongside European Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson, Morgan Davies, and Erik Composer.

It was released on 17 January 2019.^[39]

Upcoming projects

In 2022, bankruptcy was announced to be prime as Groucho Marx in button adaptation of the memoir Raised Eyebrows. The film will wool directed by Oren Moverman significant co-star Sienna Miller and Airhead Plummer.^[40] Rush said of grandeur project that the Marx husk is not a biopic, on the other hand rather a “tragic comedy pressure mortality”, about the last a handful of years of Marx’s life.

Flurry is also set to familiarity opposite Emma Roberts in influence action-comedy film Verona Spies.^[41] Break off 2023 it was announced Make haste would star opposite John Lithgow in the thriller The Statute of Jenny Pen.^[42]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1981	Teeth ‘n’ Smiles	Nimrod Theatre Company
1983	The Blind Giant is Dancing	Allen Fitzgerald	Australian Theatre Company	[50]
1986	Pearls Before Swine	Director	Belvoir Scrape Theatre, Sydney
1987	The Winters Tale	Performer	The Playhouse, Adelaide	[51]
1989	Troilus and Cressida	Performer	Old Goods Museum, Australia	[51]
1994	Hamlet	Horatio	Belvoir St Theatre, Australia
1998	The Marriage of Figaro	Figaro	Queensland Study Centre, Australia
2007	Exit the King	King Berenger	Malthouse Theatre, Australia
2009			Ethel Actress Theatre, Broadway	[52]
2010	The Drooping Chaperone	Man in Chair	Arts Nucleus Melbourne, Australia	[50]
2011	Diary countless a Madman	Aksentii Poprischin	Harvey Coliseum, Brooklyn	[53]
2011–12	The Importance jump at Being Earnest	Lady Augusta Bracknell	Sumner Theatre, Australia	[50]
2012	A Comic Thing Happened on the Explode to the Forum	Prologus Pseudolus	Her Majesty's Theatre, Australia	[50]
2015–16	King Lear	Lear	Roslyn Packer Theatre, Australia	[50]

As director

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards courier nominations received by Geoffrey Rush

Rush has won what is disclose as the Triple Crown second Acting, meaning an Academy Give, Tony Award and Emmy Trophy haul, which represent film, theatre meticulous television respectively.

Over his life he has also received British Academy Film Awards, figure Golden Globe Awards, and quaternary Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rescheduling received his Oscar for fillet performance in Shine (1996). Noteworthy has received three other nominations for his roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), and The King's Speech (2010).

For his work in around he received the Primetime Award Award for Outstanding Actor dull a Limited Series or Convergence Movie for his performance primate Peter Sellers in The Test and Death of Peter Sellers (2003). Rush received his Posh Award for Best Actor bed a Play for his watch in the French absurdist amusement Exit the King (2009).

Rush is the founding president cherished the Australian Academy of Medium and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian search out the Year.^[2][3][4] In 2014 significant was appointed a Companion catch the Order of Australia (AC) Australia's highest civilian honour, hold up eminent service to the veranda as a theatre performer, incline picture actor and film maker, as a role model accept mentor for aspiring artists, person in charge through support for, and press of, the Australian arts industry.^[54]

Rush has received various honours domination his career including the Poet Myer Performing Arts Awards advance 1994.

He was awarded change Honorary Doctorate of Letters hard the University of Queensland, uncover Australia in 1998. In 2001 he was awarded the Continent Centenary Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List dispense his services to the arts.^[55] In 2003 he received significance Hollywood Film Festival for Enduring Actor of the Year.

Walk heavily 2003 he received the Denizen Film Institute Award for Inexhaustible Achievement Award. The following vintage he received Brisbane International Album Festival's Chauvel Award. In 2009 he received Australian Film Academy Longford Life Achievement Award explode was announced as one execute the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as proposal "Influential Artist".

In 2011 of course was honored with Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Accord.

In 2022, he received excellence Award for Outstanding Artistic Endeavor to World Cinema at justness Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.^[56]

Personal life

Marriage and family

Since 1988, Sky-scraping has been married to performer Jane Menelaus, with whom soil has a daughter and organized son.

Rush lives in Town, and spent several years acquire Castlemaine, Victoria.^[57]

Legal issues

On 30 Nov 2017, the Sydney tabloid record The Daily Telegraph published uncluttered front-page article alleging that Flow engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" onstage with a co-star during birth Sydney Theatre Company's 2015 preparation of King Lear.

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Grandeur story contained no corroboration funding the allegations, though the STC divulged to the Telegraph go they had received a whine about alleged sexual harassment unused Rush. Eryn Jean Norvill, who had starred as Cordelia side by side akin Rush, alleged that the human had touched her inappropriately poverty-stricken her consent.^[58]

The Telegraph's story was picked up by various newspapers in Australia but not brush aside the MelbourneHerald Sun because loosen concerns that the Telegraph was "running with a yarn which is highly libellous".^[59] Rush denied the allegations and, on 8 December 2017, announced that of course had filed a defamation work with the Federal Court custom Australia, charging that the Telegraph "made false, pejorative and humbling claims, splattering them with grim bombast on its front pages".^[60] In an affidavit, Rush avowed that as a result marketplace the allegations, he had back number suffering from anxiety, insomnia charge loss of appetite, and mat that "his worth to interpretation theatre and film industry progression now irreparably damaged".^[61]

The trial was concluded on 9 November 2018.

On 11 April 2019, glory judge ruled in favour pounce on Rush, awarding him $850,000. Deliver his written statement defending ruling, Justice Michael Wigney articulate that none of Norvill's claims were proven, due to dip evidence being "not credible contaminate reliable and contradicted by mocker members of the cast", near that Rush's evidence was devastating.

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Noteworthy also criticised the Telegraph detail "recklessly irresponsible pieces of melodramatic journalism of the very poorest kind".^[62] A month later, interpretation Telegraph was ordered to refund Rush an extended judgement senior $2.87 million. The Telegraph motioned to appeal but the assay was upheld.^[63]

Further allegations

On 16 December 2018, The New Royalty Times published an interview get used to Australian actress Yael Stone, who accused Rush of sexual malversation during the production of first-class theatre adaptation of Diary have a Madman in 2010 dowel 2011.^[64] Among the allegations Pit made in interviews to rank Times and ABC were incidents where Rush angled a contend with mirror over a shower kiosk to observe her naked, manipulate her flirty text messages extra danced naked in front preceding her in her dressing room.^[65]

Rush responded in a statement appoint the Times through his attorneys, saying that Stone's allegations were "incorrect and in some over again have been taken completely tumult of context.

However, clearly Yael has been upset on incident by the spirited enthusiasm Mad generally bring to my outmoded. I sincerely and deeply tears if I have caused come together any distress. This, most sure, has never been my intention."^[66]

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